Movember (the month formerly known as November) is an annual charity event held during November for Mens Health.
At the start of Movember, all the guys at Spyder Display’s will start with a clean shaven face. Our Movember participants, (Andrew, Anthony, Keven, Lee, Jono, David, Andrew and Phil) also known as Tha Mo Fo’s , have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their Mo’s, raising money along the way to benefit men’s health – specifically prostate cancer and male depression.
Movember culminates at the end of the month at official Gala Partés, Mo-Office and Mo-Town parties where Tom Selleck and Borat look-a-likes battle it out for their chance to be the Man of Movember.
But it’ s not all fun and games, so why the extreme behavior?
Which ever way we look at it, men are far less healthy than women. The average life expectancy for men is five years less than for women.
The obvious question is why?
Men lack awareness about the very real health issues they face. There is an attitude that they have to be tough – “a real man” – and are reluctant to see a doctor about an illness or go for regular medical checks.
Movember aims to change these attitudes and make men’s health fun by putting the Mo back on the face of fashion and in the process raise some serious funds for key men’s health issues, including:
Prostate Cancer: because every year 2,900 Australian men die from prostate cancer and over 18,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Depression in Men: because one in six men experience depression at any given time but most don’t seek help.